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Mailto |
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An HTML tag used
to send E-mail to a specified address. Mailtos are frequently
used with forms to transfer the data input from forms an E-mail
account. |
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Metasearcher |
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Search engines
that simultaneously pass a user's query on to several other
search engines in parallel. The term is frequently misapplied
to pages containing several search engine forms that operate
independently, i.e. no parallel search is performed. |
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Meta Information |
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The header information
located in the HTML programming code that makes up a Web page.
This is what Web robots explore when indexing information to
locate on their search engine software. This is typically what
we call "key words" that are used to describe the
Web site and some of its content. Every Web site on the Web
typically has 25 key word to describe content, location, themes,
and titles names. |
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MIDI |
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Musical Instrument
Digital Interface. A music definition language and communications
protocol enabling electronic instruments to communicate musical
information. |
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MIME - Multipurpose
Internet Mail Extensions |
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A means of identifying
content in e-mail files and on Web pages. Used by Web browser
programs to identify Web page content for proper display. |
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Mosaic |
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The browser that
triggered the web explosion with its first public release in
1993, written by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina while they were
at NCSA (before they went on to write Netscape). |
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Mozilla |
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Alias for the
Netscape browser.
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MPEG - Moving
Picture Experts Group |
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Compression algorithm
for video and audio files, often used on the Web. |
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Multimedia |
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Means in addition
to text for conveying information to users. |
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